Thailand floods

In Thailand flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country.This is currently the country’s worst flooding in 50 years. Over 900,000 families and businesses have been impacted and hundreds of lives have been lost. National relief efforts are now focused on providing essential food, clean water, and shelter to displaced people and restoring damaged infrastructure. Here are online resources and maps of the flooding: 1.Google Crisis Response: Thailand Floods Map– shows the flood affected areas across Thailand, shelters, flooded highways, and provides emergency contact information for residents. 2. ThaiFlood.com – shows flooding areas in Thailand. Updated daily. 3. Globalfloodmap.org – shows flooded areas and displaced persons in Thailand with numbers and percentages of people losing homes. It uses NASA satellite data to assess at risk areas for flooding. 4. Map of Flooded Roads – created by the Thailand Highway … [Read more...] about 2011 Thailand Flooding Maps and Resources

By Tassanee Vejpongsa Published 12:56 pm, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP / Getty Images Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Family members pray as they keep vigil near the Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai. Family members pray as they keep vigil near the Tham Luang cave in Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai. Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP / Getty Images Flooding complicates cave search for Thai soccer team 1 / 1 Back to Gallery MAE SAI, Thailand — Efforts to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been missing inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand for three days hinge on pumping out water so that navy divers have room to operate, the first high-level Thai official to visit the site said Tuesday. Interior Minister Anupong … [Read more...] about Flooding complicates cave search for Thai soccer team

TWELVE missing teenagers and their football coach are feared to be trapped in a Thai cave after they didn't return from practice on Saturday. Investigators believe the group crawled into the Tham Luang Nang Non cave, in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province, two days ago. Rescuers are planning a second attempt to try to get through a small, flooded passage after divers were unable to reach deep inside the chamber first time. Kamolchai Kotcha, a park official, said the passage to the chamber is extremely small, "flooded and covered with sand and mud." He told CNN: "We have been working almost 24 hours but there are many limitations, the caves are pitch dark and very low level of oxygen in some areas, and scattering rains just made our task more difficult." The large chamber is about 2.5 miles from the entrance of the cave that's thought is be between three and five miles long. The boys are aged between 11 and 15, from Chiang Rai, and are believed to have entered the cave … [Read more...] about Twelve missing youth footballers and their coach are feared trapped in flooded Thai cave after they didn’t return from practice

A FRENCH national has been charged with raping a British backpacker on Thailand’s “death island” Koh Tao. Thai police identified the suspect as 26-year-old French national Yohan Michael Tunka Buaga. He was arrested on Saturday and charged with rape yesterday. The suspect is currently being held on the neighbouring island of Koh Samui. Police Lieutenant Colonel Piyapong Boonkaew of Koh Tao police said: “The suspect has admitted to having sexual intercourse with the victim, but he said that it was consensual and not rape. "We are now investigating the case and waiting for forensic examination.” The 18-year-old victim had been drinking with the suspect and two friends on the notorious holiday spot last Wednesday night when she was allegedly attacked. She told police she woke up the next morning to find the suspect, Yohan Michael Tunka Buaga, 26, pleasuring himself in his boxer shorts next to her half-naked body. The Brit says she was wearing only a T-shirt. … [Read more...] about French tourist charged after Brit backpacker, 18, ‘drugged and raped’ on Thailand’s ‘death island’ Koh Tao